Chowtime Video Review (1994)

Chowtime Video Review was a series of 8 television episodes, each 30 minutes long, that was broadcast on Manhattan Cable's channel 34 broadcast channel to thousands of people in the mid-nineties. The series ran from April 30, 1994 to August 15, 1994. The show was directed by Gib Von Bach and starred Tom Wilson and Joe Malone as two late 20's bachelor dudes who liked to rent DVDs and order locale take-out food from their East Village neighborhood haunts, then go home, party hardy, and end the evening by reviewing both the movies they had just seen and the local NYC food that they had just ate. It was a real review show but set up as a comedy complete with comedic skits or sketches from time to time. Joe Malone was fired after the 8th episode for partying, smoking, cursing and causing to many on-camera problems for the other two creators. Joe was hell-bent on making the shows more subversive in nature. After firing Joe, Tom Wilson and Gib Von Bach went on to make 10 more episodes of the show with a different co-star and a different name, Cinema Cafe.